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Collections in Flux

Collections in Flux: the dynamic spaces and temporalities of collecting May 9-10, 2014 Organizers: Adriana  Craciun (UC Riverside) and Mary Terrall (UCLA) Location: UCLA Clark Library This interdisciplinary conference explores how collections shift their meanings and uses with motion through … Continue reading →

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“Global Archivalities” event available online

The transcript of the May 7th workshop, “Global Archivalities: A Conceptual Workshop,” is now available on line. It includes the video, audio, and chat from the entire workshop. You can also access it from the Events page on the website http://globalarchivalities.org. … Continue reading →

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Announcing: Global Archivalities Research Network

The Global Archivalities Network is a project launched by Randolph Head (University of California, Riverside), Arndt Brendecke (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) and Hilde de Weerdt (Kings College London). We seek to connect and recruit humanists in all disciplines interested in the comparative … Continue reading →

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New Faculty Book: Vital Matters: Eighteenth-Century Views of Conception, Life, and Death

Vital Matters: Eighteenth-Century Views of Conception, Life, and Death Edited by Helen Deutsch and Mary Terrall Published by Toronto University Press, 2012 Eighteenth-century questions about the properties essential to life often explored the boundary between the physical world of the … Continue reading →

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Global Archivalities: A Conceptual Workshop

Sponsored by the University of California Multicampus Research Group on The Material Cultures of Knowledge  and UCHRI May 7, 2013, 9-11 AM, PDT Archives play a fundamental role in historical research, yet archivality as a human cultural product subject to enormous variation has … Continue reading →

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Oceanic Enterprise: Location, Longitude, and Maritime Cultures 1770-1830

  Conference at Huntington Library, Jan. 25-26, 2013: Oceanic Enterprise: Location, Longitude, and Maritime Cultures 1770-1830

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CFP: “Risk, Crisis, Speculation: 1500-1800”

Risk, Crisis, Speculation: 1500-1800 Conference Date: February 9, 2013 / Abstracts Due: December 2, 2012 The Early Modern Center at University of California, Santa Barbara invites proposals for our twelfth annual conference, “Risk, Crisis, Speculation: 1500-1800.” This one-day conference will … Continue reading →

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Scholarship 2013-2014 (UCHRI)

  Andrew Vincent White and Florence Wales White Graduate Student Scholarship 2013-14   Who Can Apply: UC graduate students working on a dissertation project in the Humanities and Medicine or in the Theoretical Social Sciences and Medicine Level of Award: Up … Continue reading →

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Public Lecture: “The Seeds of Disaster: Relic Hunting and Scientific Exploration”

“The Seeds of Disaster: Relic Hunting and Scientific Exploration” a public lecture by Professor Adriana Craciun (University of California, Riverside) Friday 12 Oct. 2012 5:00 pm in 300 Wheeler Hall, UC Berkeley Reception to follow

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Cambridge Colloquium: “We Need to Talk About Things” Sept. 27-29, UK

As part of the collaboration between the “Material Cultures of Knowledge” MRG and Cambridge University’s Center for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, there will be a second collaborative event in the series on “Material Cultures of the … Continue reading →

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